Data & Cloud
A cloud estate you can defend to a CFO
Cloud estates designed for cost, resilience, and the next five years of growth.
Cloud bills that grow faster than revenue, architectures nobody fully understands, and migrations stalled between 'lift' and 'shift' — most estates evolved by accident. Deliberate architecture turns cloud from a cost centre back into leverage.
- A bill that tracks value instead of entropy
- Failover you've actually rehearsed
- An architecture diagram that matches reality
Capabilities
What the work actually involves
Architecture & landing zones
Account structure, network design, IAM, and guardrails — the foundation everything else inherits.
Migration engineering
Rehost, replatform, or refactor decided per workload with cost/risk math attached; executed with rollback paths.
Cost optimisation (FinOps)
Rightsizing, reservations, storage tiering, and the zombie-hunt — typically 20–40% off the first pass.
Resilience & DR
RTO/RPO targets engineered and drill-tested, not aspirational.
Sovereignty & compliance design
Data-residency, PSU, and regulated-industry requirements built into the topology.
Networking and hybrid connectivity
VPCs, peering, private links and the site-to-cloud connection back to the plant or branch — usually the piece that decides whether a hybrid estate is workable or merely drawn.
Container platform and orchestration
A runtime the team can actually operate: managed Kubernetes where the workload earns it, plain containers where it does not, with the platform boundary written down.
Deliverables
What you are handed.
Yours to keep, and written so another team could pick them up.
An inventory of what you actually run
Including the server under someone's desk. Migrations fail on what was not on the list.
A landing zone
Accounts, networking, identity and guardrails set up before the first workload moves.
A rehearsed cutover
Run twice against production-like data, with rollback timed and proven.
A cost model against real load
Before commitment, and monitored after. Cloud bills surprise people who skipped this.
We do not publish prices — scope drives them. Everything else, here.
- Starts with
- An assessment of the current estate and its real cost
- Typical duration
- 6–14 weeks depending on estate size
- Who you get
- A cloud architect, two engineers, an SRE
- Commercial model
- Fixed-scope assessment, then phased migration
How to decide
What the answer depends on.
Two sets of conditions. Read both against your own situation — most organisations recognise themselves in one column within a sentence or two.
This is the right call when
- Hardware is up for renewal, or the data centre contract is ending.
- Scaling means buying a server and waiting six weeks.
- You need a documented DR position you do not currently have.
A different approach fits better when
- Lift-and-shift with no change and no target for improvement — you will pay more for the same thing.
- Data cannot leave the premises. That is a private-cloud problem, and a different one.
- No appetite to rehearse. Unrehearsed cutovers are how weekends become weeks.
Proof
Where we have done this
A live control tower for a national logistics fleet
Real-time visibility over 3,000+ vehicles with exception-first alerts — detention hours cut 41%, and customers now track shipments without calling.
41%Reduction in detention hours
Replatforming a D2C brand for 10× sale-day traffic
Rebuilt a buckling storefront into a headless commerce platform — 99.98% uptime through festival sales and a 28% lift in conversion from speed alone.
99.98%Sale-day uptime
Before you ask
Questions about cloud architecture & migration
Sectors
Where this comes up most.
The regulatory context and the systems already in the building change the build. Each sector page says how.
Next step
Bring us the problem. We will bring the architecture.
A discovery call takes forty-five minutes. You leave with our read on the problem, the shape of the system we would propose, and a straight answer on whether we are the right team for it.
- No sales deck
- An engineer on the call, not an account manager
- NDA before you share anything